Friday,Nov 13 2009, 06:21:10 AMShare PowerPoint Slideshow with DVD (5 Methods)

Again and again, friends from answers.yahoo.com ask me how to burn PowerPoint Presentations onto DVD.

Some of them create compelling PowerPoint slideshows with audio and video clips embedded so that they have no choices but attach the huge packages in the E-mails to send them to others for sharing.

I met a teacher who also had such problems. He had to make a presentation at a place where there is only a DVD Player and a TV without a computer.So I think it is really necessary to write a comprehensive guide to help you to burn PowerPoint onto DVD for easy distribution and easy sharing.

In this guide five methods will be introduced to help you to convert and save PowerPoint onto DVD.

Method A:Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video and then burn it to DVD -Free

Method B:Use PowerPoint to Video Converter to convert PowerPoint to video and then burn it to DVD -$49.95

Method C:Use PowerPoint to DVD Burner to burn PowerPoint to DVD directly - $99.95

Method D:Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video and then burn it to DVD -$299.95

Method E:Mac users - Export PowerPoint/Keynote file to Quicktime video to burn to DVD -Free

Method A:Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video and then burn it to DVD

Step 1. Save your PowerPoint slide show as "PNG" images.

Step 2. Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker

Step 3. Select all the imported images and add them to Storyboard

Step 4. Add video effects to the slides (Optional)

Step 5. Save the slide show as a Movie File.

Method B:Use PowerPoint to Video Converter and then burn it to DVD

Step 1. Insert the PowerPoint files into the converter

Step 2. Set the output options and start to burn

Step 3. Burn the converted video to DVD

Method C: Use PowerPoint to DVD Burner to burn PowerPoint onto DVD directly

Step 1: Import: You can import up to 12 presentation files at a time.

Step 2: Setting: Check the default settings and make some changes if needed

Step 3. Burn: Click the "Start" button

Method D: Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video to burn to DVD

Download: http://www.techsmith.com

Step 1. Set your computer display resolution as 800*600

Step 2. Save your PowerPoint file as PPS files

Step 3. Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen

Step 4. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press "F9" to start recording the screen

Step 5. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter a filename. Click "Save". Camtasia will save your capture as an .AVI file.

Step 6. Then you can burn the video to DVD with Nero or Roxio



Method E: Mac user - Use Quick time to convert PowerPoint to video to then burn it to DVD

Step 1. In Powerpoint, export your presentation as a Quicktime movie "PowerPoint Movie"

If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to Quicktime file directly

Step 2. Burn the Quicktime movie to DVD with your DVD burner.



Advantages and disadvantages

Method A is free but it will lost the transitions and animations in your original PowerPoint.

Method B is cheap and it can retain transitions and animations, but it can't create DVD menus.

Method C has a medium price, it can burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD Menus and retain the animations, transitions, sound and movie clips in the original PowerPoint file. (Recommended)

Method D is fairly expensive, but it has lots of other functions such as recording the screen.

Method E is free, but only for Mac users.

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